The shooting happened after police encountered Kumar behind the wheel of a stolen car. Officers said Kumar proceeded to ram one of their patrol cars, so they fired their Tasers at the driver.

KCBS’ Matt Bigler Reports:

Police then said they thought Kumar was going for a gun and one officer fired three shots, one of them fatal.

Kumar was later found to be unarmed and his family has since filed a complaint with the city’s Independent Police Auditor, LaDoris Cordell.

Earlier this month, Judge Cordell said that any allegations of officer misconduct are investigated promptly.

“These complaints are investigated by the internal affairs unit, and then our office then audits these investigations to ensure that the investigation was fair, complete, thorough and objective,” Cordell said.

The District Attorney’s office will conduct a separate investigation to determine whether or not the shooting was justified.

Kumar did have previous drug-related run-ins with the law, but his family has told the San Jose Mercury news that he was never violent and that he recently talked about taking classes at De Anza Community College.

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KCBS's Matt Bigler started as a reporter/anchor in 2004, and is now based in San Jose working out of the Silicon Valley Bureau. Matt co-anchors the 5:00am hour with Susan Leigh Taylor in San Francisco, and can also be seen on TV most mornings...

So maybe if this guy wasn’t in a stolen car that someone (not him) worked hard to pay for and wasn’t ramming the cops car when they rolled up on him then this could have all been avoided…..So another officer is going to have his career ruined because some ignorant person thinks he can just do whatever he wants and not get caught. Ok yeah I feel for this guys family but in reality it is not the cops fault. The loved one that this guys family are all missing and mourning over should not have been in a stolen car and ramming cops in the first place…. the cops were sent out on a call because someone reported a man with a gun…. If the so called victim in this case would have just surrendered like a civil human being then guess what he would still be here today. Sorry truth hurts.